Ozzie says Marlins will call up Jacob Turner to start Wednesday

Manager Ozzie Guillen said the Marlins will call up Jacob Turner to start one of the double-header games on Wednesday.

“I don’t know what game he will start. Probably the early one. After that we have to (decide) if he will stay or come back,” he said.
“I’m pretty sure they’d love him to stay”

Turner, 21, is 2-0 with a 1.98 ERA in five starts for Class AAA New Orleans since coming to the Marlins in the trade that sent pitcher Anibal Sanchez and second baseman Omar Infante to Detroit.

Turner was the ninth overall pick of the 2009 draft. He was 1-1 with an 8.03 ERA in three major-league starts earlier this year for the Tigers.

“I think we should keep him here to see if we can count on him next year,” Guillen said.

“We are now in 27th meeting about it. We are still debating what way are going to go.”

Wade LeBlanc will start the other game.

Other topics addressed by Guillen today:

On where Jose Reyes and Emilio Bonifacio should bat.

“I think Boni should be the lead-off guy. Reyes has more pop and Reyes can make things happen batting second or third,” he said.

On find the right batters to protect Giancarlo Stanton in the batting order:

“It’s not easy, Look around. Who?”…

“People who are not wearing the uniform think, what is he doing? Why doesn’t he have anybody to protect him?’ Well I need the (bleeping) FBI to protect that guy because anybody on this (expletive) team can’t. Anybody here can’t protect him. No one. Then I’m going to need the DEA, FBI and a (bleeping) SWAT team to protect him.”

On his first season as Marlins manager:

“My hardest year is this one as a manager. There were great expectations and we have not met those expectations. This year has been very tough.

“A lot of trades. A lot of young kids. A lot of on injuries. A lot of horse-(expletive) games. We have plenty of that. We lead the league in bad games.”

On the Chicago White Sox playing well this year without him:

“I said at the end of the day, ‘I hope they play better for Robin than they played for me.’ And I was not wrong because I knew what kind of talent they have.”’

On the team’s early exit from Showtime’s The Franchise:

“The way we play, who would want to (bleeping) watch that (expletive)? I don’t want to watch it. Every time I watched an episode I got depressed. With that voice of the (narrator), ‘And the Marlins lost again…” This is depressing.”